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Knox College to Survey Maytag Employees
Knox College students are embarking on another project that will essentially see how many of the nearly 1,000 people, who worked at the Galesburg Maytag plant when it closed six-years ago, are doing now.

A statement from the college indicates three Knox journalism students completing summer fellowships have been working on the project to survey the workers; which grew out of a project where nine of them were interviewed for a journalism class earlier in the year.

Knox Journalism Program Chair Marilyn Webb says the survey, which is being prepared for mailing this week to four hundred of the workers, will be done anonymously, will ask the employees how their lives have changed.

Webb says it also will deal with job retraining, new job availability, health, income, and family well-being.

She says it also contains a cover letter from Dave Bevard, head of the local Machinists union when the plant closed.

Former Maytag employees helped compile the survey questions.

For more information on the survey, CLICK HERE.

Knox Journalism professor Marilyn Webb and a student will talk more about the survey Thursday at 9:15am on WGIL's "Galesburg Live" with Terry Cavanaugh.
08 04 10 by Newsroom
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